1uly2006
ON THE ROAD
Hello;
Brighton at 10:18 then Saddlescombe then Pyecombe then Slaugham then Pease Pottage all in the A23. On the M23 we had Crawley and Horley and then very close to the M25 our next destiny Caterham. And we had the M25 as I said but it was the west one Redhill, and Leatherhead went by with no notice, Byfleet, Addlestone, Stains, this is the village of Ali-G but we went forward to Uxbridge and there we got into the M40.
Beaconsfield to start with, then Stokenchurch, Worminghall leaving Oxford behind, then King's Sutton and Banbury. Gaydon was our take on Stratford-upon-Avon; Shakespeare was living there many years ago.
The M42 just to go around Birmingham and the M6 with Walsall, Wolverhampton, Codsall, no, Codsall was in the wrong direction, Cannock is right, and Penkridge and Stafford, and Stone and Stoke on Trent and Alsager very close to Crewe where Talking Pictures theatre used to happen. Sandbach, Lymm, Woolston, Golborne, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Orrel, Standish, Coppull, Euxton, Clayton-le-woods, Bamber Bridge where we have already eaten and we were ready to make it all the way really fast. We had the determination to go all the way through Higher Walton, Bilsborrow, Bonds, Scorton, Ellel, Lancaster, Nether Kellet, Farleton, Low Borrowbridge, Tebay, Lowther Hackthorpe, Penrith, Catterlen and all in the M6. Penrith, Catterlen, Calthwaite, Wetheral and Carlisle. Yes, we were in Scotland finally and that it was done in around six hours of driving.
After this it was A74, the M6 became the A74 for a very bizarre reason, we took it never the less and we had Todhills, Springfield, the town of The Simpsoms, Kirkpratick-Fleming, Eaglesfield and we stopped at the sadly famous village of Lockerbie. I am sure you all remember that horrible blow in an American plane that went down here some time ago. The Americans said that it has been Gadafi's secret service but I know that it was a plot by the C.I.A. to invade Libya. We took petrol for the beast there in honour of Gadafi's suffering.
The A74 seemed not to have an end, we had Nethercleuch and we saw and accident with a van probably like us coming to the Festival. They were all dead, thirteen actors dead and no show in the festival for then. Newton Wamphray and then Moffat we were about to live the Ms and As to the get the A702 so that means that there was another A to get through; Lamington, Coulter, Cambuswallace, Westlinton, Silverburn and then Edinburgh. It had taken us from 10:18 am until 18:10 in the evening to do the whole journey, that is eight hours and ten minutes.
Tomorrow the van will go back and we will start our festival.
Have fun.
KATHY'S DEPARTY
Hello;
We have gathered here today to say farewell to a dear friend who has leaving us for good. While she was with us she performed fantastically well in all her tasks. At the end due to her departure things did not go as smooth as before but she was leaving between the two worlds and nobody can blame anything to a human being who is in between two different worlds.
Our dear Kathy had worked for the benefit of us really hard and she always made sure that nobody close to her had to suffer a un necessary pain. We thank her and thank the lord for bless us with her presence.
The lord had blessed her with the best skills to negotiate contracts with big companies like the Cirque du Soleil. And her advice was a big light at the end of the long tunnel of our live in Las Vegas. We were surrounded by an incredible amount of pagans and her strength and generosity made possible that we came from it alive.
So after the last thanks and the wished to our lord we will go out to the garden and with the corpus present we will eat some flesh. The meat does not belong to our dear friend we will try to worship her as much as we can by eating in the barbecue all the sausages and chicken wings and other parts of the chicken that get cocked.
Also our friends who do not eat meat will have some vegetarian goodies that are also bless by our lord.
We will drink the wine, the red and the white and some of the yeast beverage that is the second creation of the human being, the beer.
Lets all gather in the garden around the fire and talk and celebrate the friendship and the love and generosity of Kathy Bourne, the once manager of Spymonkey. We wish for her a very good after life taking care of the people that leave in the grand prairie, that live in the heavens and knowing that we will all have to give that step one moment or the other.
Kathy we have loved you, we love you, I love you and I thank you and …lets finish our glasses for her.
Have fun.
NOTHING TO SAY
Hello;
The thing is that I do not have anything to say, well, I do. But my thing is that I do not know what to say, or perhaps what I have to say is too delusive, my felling are all over the places. I am adjusting but it is taking some time and I think I have to really …but I can write nothing because there is nothing I can put together so it would be entertainment. Even to decide that I will write something about not being able to write anything is not making any sense either because I am not being able to articulate anything that will amuse anybody.
I also thought of insult myself to me myself, things alone the line of you do not have any creativity; what is your fucking problem? You useless twat, you are about to go to the biggest festival in the world and there is nothing you can say about it? I can believe it, you senseless cunt. But it is not funny and it does not work, as I would like it to.
The other thing I do sometimes is to talk about the facts that have happened during the whole day. That kind of thing it usually works very well but now I fell a little bit bored perhaps because the whole thing is too fresh in my live hood. Sometimes I leave some time between the day when all the things have happened and the day when I write about them. That gives me a little bit of distance and makes it possible to laugh about it.
I must be very preoccupied, I can not really decided if that is the case because I am too involve in the whole life of the Spymonkey live so it is complicated to decided. Lots of thoughts go through my mind. When I was without work in my town I wanted to come here as soon as possible now that I am here I want to go back there as soon as possible and I know that once we start to play I will enjoy a lot. I think is all the shit of running the company which really upset me. Well, upset is not the right word but is something like that. Probably the right word is preoccupied that all the business preoccupied me, perhaps I think that what the company wants at the moment is not what I want? I ask myself.
Have fun.
THE SET
Hello;
Our set got unpacked, you see, well, not, you can not see it but as I wrote pack the red line if miss spelling appear in my computer and it piss me off because it is a remainder of how bad my English is. But this, of course is another subject in it. It got set up in the basement of Brighton Fringe. This is an organisation based in Brighton that I do know what it does. The place is not great but it helps to our porpoise. Our porpoise is to see if the set that we are taking to Edinburgh with us. This is the second set we ever did. And since we left Las Vegas we have not used much. We used it in Switzerland in the winter. It is smaller than our current one so it is better for smaller theatres and is good for the festival because we have to do the get in and the get our really fast every day that we will play there.
Graeme and Lucy are helping us.
Whenever we work in our set is a mess because we do not have a system. The mess is more in the organisation department because most of the things that come out from somewhere do not make it back to place where they came from. We have tried many things but is has never worked and no one of us can understand why.
For that reason Graeme and Lucy are great because at least the work gets done and we do not have to do any other job than repacked everything once again. This takes a long time but we have done it so many times that by now we are very good at it. I am sure we are going to undone the set and then when we are in Edinburgh the whole thing is going to be a mess to build it over there. I can see inside me the horrible moment when the technicians of the venue ask me how the whole thing gets build and then I will have to pretend that I know and then slowly come clean and tell them that I do not know and that it is going to take a little bit of time for me to figure it out. I will pretend to be stupid and little by little the whole thing will take shape.
This set is not anymore our set. It is the set of our circumstances. We are playing at the festival and our real set does not fit here so we have to get this old one that we do not like as much or better that it is much smaller and that we are going to fight with it to make the show very good.
I want my true set.
Have fun.
FIRST IMPRESIONS
Hello;
As I leave the plain a wave of heat hits me. I wander, is it the engine of the plain or it really is hot here? I have walked all the way through customs and I am waiting for my luggage while I see the officers looking at me, will they search my suitcase? That would be horrible.
I had to get a café, I had to eat something because when I left this morning my stomach was close with sadness and I could not eat anything.
Now I have gone back to the National Express station and I do not like English people so much. The lady with the walk-talky is very impolite but she points me in the right direction for the bus to Brighton.
Once in the bus the heat is not doing me any favours, I am sweating like a pig. This is how is going to be because the heat is not going to have an end very soon. I pick a copy of the Sun, the most popular newspaper of this country and I spend a long time at page three. She looks great. I go through the whole paper and I am not surprise that some of the things that happen here are horrible. Wait a moment¡ this is not fair, Spain is a real shit hole in many things.
I try to decide if I am happy here or not and the only thing I can think is that I am excited but sad but happy so this means that I cannot decide. I fell out of place in this place where everything is foreign to me. I wait in the sit for the bus to leave. I am going to be waiting for thirty-five minutes so I sit down and I hear a Vietnamese person talking really loud on the phone and I realise that she is really ugly. I am suffer she is one of the victims of the napalm because if not she is a monster from nature. After that vision I decide that the best thing to do while I wait is to read my book and I get into that.
I do not stop looking at the clock in front of me, I would not like to miss my bus and have to stay here much longer.
The bus leaves on time and I sit back sweating like a pig and I try to read my book but I fall sleep and I wake up in Gatwick. The sit, the back of my sit is wet. It is really hot and humid so I sweat a lot. I wander about who is going to be sitting in my place in the next bus journey.
I am in Brighton, Toby is going to pick me up but I have to option to stop close to his house and I do it. I send him a text message and he says that he is at the beach so I walk to the house and I wait for him there. I call Miren, I am back in England.
Have fun.
T-SHIRT
Hello
I have to have it. I have to have the t-shirt of the Spicblog. Yes, it is going to be my own project. I will have full control of the whole thing. I can hear a voice in the back of my mine telling me that it will never happen but I am going to dream for a while.
It is not my idea. I have copied from Strangefamilia; they are the clowns from the show Love of Cirque du Soleil. I received the e-mail this morning and I thought I should do something similar that I can sell in our shows and at the same time advertise the blog. I thought of writing “my” blog but it is very egotistic so blog would do for now.
I am not sure of anything yet, but I like yellow, I like the colour yellow for the t-shirt with a black shadow of the picture that is at the blog on the left side of the shirt. Immediately underneath the armpit so it will look on the girl's shirt that my face is sucking their nipples, an old fantasy of mine.
The size of the cut out it is something that bothers me. My first instinct is to make it the actual size of my head. That would make sense because it would be me but on the other hand perhaps the best is just to make it a little bit smaller. The other idea is because we are working with a cut out (I mean to get the shape of the picture and then fill it in black) will could change the shape ever so slightly to make it look like a monkey. I know¡¡ we have the human shape in front and the monkey shape in the back, what do you think?
I have to try because I do not really like all the ideas that I am having.
The colours are very important, because it will make the whole thing stand out. I like it to be Yellow Lemon, it will be very flashy yellow lemon and with the black of my shape very black with some yellow dots in the right places.
It will have Spymonkey written all over the back of the shirt. The letters will be black because that would make them stand out. I think I am going to spend 500 pounds in shirts and then sell them for twenty-five pounds, get them before they get sold out.
Have fun.
NEXT WEEK
Hello;
Time to be back at work and the e-mail from Mr. Murdston and Miss Massey and the crazy German are coming non-stop from their countries. I get what is all about, I have been smoking too much and now I have to come back to the real world and start to think about monkey business, no¡¡¡ I have to start to think is Spymonkey business. I know it is not a great joke but the Max brothers used that in the pass and it worked perfectly.
There are so many things to do and I have my brain at the moment thinking like a German person. The more things I have to do the better I will fell. It is a little bit scary.
I have received so many schedules that they are collapsing my computer. I have decided to compare all the schedules and make a big statistic taking on account the things that get repeated and the things that appear just once, also the things that appear twice, and also the things that appear three or more times. With this statistic I will be able to know how to be more economical in our efforts.
I have to go downstairs to get more cigarettes for my wife. Well, when I come back I will carry on writing but perhaps I do not want to or the overwhelming amount of e-mails and work that we have to do will collapse my brain and then I will have to have a glass of wine, and then my first join of the day. So if that would happen I would not check my e-mails ‘till tomorrow and that will make me fell the freedom of holydays.
I love drinking wine in the afternoon. Yes, I am going now to get the cigarettes, yes darling I am coming and I will be back soon.
Have fun.
SO MANY THINGS
Hello;
We are now alone. Our dear friends from Canada had left for Barcelona and Miren and me once again can be together and alone. But we have to visit the doctor, we have to talk tot he neighbours about the repairs of the house, we have to see my parents, we have to return the car, we have to get ready to go to Edinburgh, we have to go for a drink with all our friends from Romo my beautiful town before a leave because the festivals of Romo are going to be next week and I am not going to be here, we have to see Jon to lend him some clothes so he can go to a wedding because last time he went dressed with some of the clothes he uses for some of his shows and Begoña his girlfriend got really pissed of, we have to talk to the hospital to organised the visit of our friends from Brighton, we have to go to the hospital to get checked once more so they can tell us what do we need to do in order to have a baby, we have to do that with a friend of my parents so we have to see him first over lunch at his house and then he will ask one of his friends to give us a dates and then we will be jumping a two years cue to visit the doctor. It is very difficult to get pregnant and it is even more difficult if you are planning to do it with the social security.
We have to call the guy that put our windows because one of them is block and we need to be able to close it and open it how we like. We have to go to the gym and pay because this month has been really busy and we have not remembered to go there and pay our bill. We have to go to take my brother to the airport because he has a gig in Barcelona and he is here at the moment so he will spend the night here and then we will take him to the airport. We have to close the small balcony completely. Lately with this big summer storms it is raining a lot and the water get through and it is not nice.
We have to decide if in October we will be visiting Madagascar where my sister lives and there fore we will have to buy the tickets in advance so we do not pay a huge amount of money. We have to build a cupboard for the bath to keep the towels there. We have to practise my part of the Mr. Sandman song so when we are in the festival we do not sound like a group of chickens being follow by cock.
We have to do so many things that the list will never end in a million years. And it would be stupid of me to think that there is going to be a moment where there is not going to be a list anymore. Life is a list, as my dear friend Petra would say, a list where you keep ticking things at the top and adding things at the bottom.
Have fun.
CALAMARY
Hello;
Walking on Sunday that is the thing to do. Getting from your bed and after a nice deserving good breakfast you put the first clothes you find and without any thinking you hit the streets for a stroll, that is the thing to do.
Your body tells you where to go. There is not need to decide where are you going, you just leaving your knees to lead your way. Then when you are walking, after a time walking you will have that wonderful surprise that they have given you as you realise where are you heading too. The beach is wonderful place to walk on Sunday.
The sun is warming up you face and you have the felling that you could be walking forever. It is not really true but that is how it fells.
At one point for no reason you know is time to stop and there you are, this is where I will be spending my morning and probably the afternoon.
It is something to drink the next thing that your body is asking you. No, do not think alcohol but a nice glass of wine would increase the opening of my pleasure points, the opening of the pours of my skin, the way of enjoying the most the good vibrations.
I have some troubles describing my feelings.
And while you are shipping your first glass of that refreshing young and temperamental red wine your stomach shouts for something to make him happy too and you look at the menu board that is closer to you. You are by the sea and probably the things on offer come from there and they have to be good because they have been couched that morning so you choose a fresh sea creature.
Mussels with a tomato souse and “rabas” is the choice. The smell coming from the closest store helps your decision and then the look of satisfaction of the other people Sundaying tells you that it was the right thing to choose.
Then as it comes you do know that is not going to last long enough on the table to have a view so you order some more.
You should not satisfy your appetite, just tame it and go to have the best lunch. The effect of the wine will carry you to the restaurant and to the siesta after wards and you would have had the best Sunday ever.
Have fun.
PS, Rabas; is the way we call calamari is the place where I live.
SHOPPING
Hello,
I do not know why did I write that word? What was the most important thing that happened yesterday? We sleep until late. I spoke to Cal. Miren and I had a nice tense day for not apparent reason. Riul and Stephany seem to be having fun doing nothing and that is exactly what we did. But we needed it to do some shopping, general shopping in the big market and that is exactly what we did. We drove to the mall and we spend there at least five hours. We have to go to all the shops and check if there could be something that we would like to buy. Shopping is a very normal thing to do while on holydays and thou I am not on holydays that is what our Canadian friends are doing at the moment. We had some time in the shoes section but nothing left the shop. Many things move from the selves to our feet and then went back to where they belong, the selves. It was not frustration it was just the simple fact that we did not fight anything.
The grocery shopping was very good and successful because there was a list and one by one the things of that list went into de trolley. But of course shopping seem to be a very simple thing but there are more things that you do while you shop, you plan things, etc and I had the brilliant idea of come up with a different plan to the one that we have just agree upon. That kind of multitask ability created a big fight between my lovely wife and me and it was a little bit embarrass for our friends and for the rest of the customers because we were screaming like when we Spanish people sing flamenco. You live with people and because there are guest in your house you cannot stop being how you are, as a sign of confidence you have to behave like you are.
Thou I have to say that shopping with more than one person it are not an easy task. There are so many things around you and you have to take so many little decisions, these tomatoes or those tomatoes, this lettuce or that lettuce, this bread or that one…so it is normal to argue.
Have fun.
HOWE GELB
Hello;
First time I heard of Howe was in Brighton in the Festival. He played at the Dome and I was spending the weekend in Bilbao because it was the christening of my dear nephew. They all told me when I was back that I had missed the concert of the century and that they would copy the music and then I would understand what they mean.
As a part of the Jazzaldia in Donostia Howe Gelb is giving a concert on the Zurita Beach and after the famous pianist from New Orleans Dc. John will also play.
Riul and Stephanie are fans like I am and we were planning to go to see San Sebastian and eat there and see the town. So, we told ourselves that it is a very good chance to see the concert.
We did not see much of San Sebastian but at seven we were already there, at the beach were we have spent all the afternoon swimming and we had just left for half an hour to get some “bocadillos”. We sat there drinking beer and eating our sandwiches and the concert was on. He was very country melancholic and very soon we realised that the beach is not the best place to see his very intimate country and Americana style of music. He was singing with coir of black singers from Canada. They were great and it was really nice to see him and them singing together.
In between Howe and Dc. John it became very clear that it was going to rain. We did not want to accept and the rest of the audience neither. Dc. John came onto the stage like the bid star he is. He had place a skull on top of his piano and he came walking with the help of a silver stick. I did not know many of his songs but Riul was singing along so I realised that they were famous songs.
His music is amazing and very very good to have fun but once again I will rather see him in a club. There in that beautiful beach is very easy to get distracted and it does not help for enjoying the concert.
When there was five minutes for the concert to finish the rain started to come down and the tirenes of the whole day hit us really hard so we left the concert to the disappointment of Riul. We were three against one. We drove home and we slept very well knowing that we have had a privilege and fantastic full day.
Have fun.
MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES
Hello,
The Museo de bellas Artes of Bilbao has become the place to discover lately the ugly sister of the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. Everybody comes to see the second one but then they end up liking more the collection of the first one than the one that everybody knows. It has been there for many years before and the biggest part of the permanent collection it is full of very classic pieces as Zurbaran, Velazquez, Murillo, etc and lots of religious art from the middle ages. It is nice but it is a little bit boring.
Then there is some art from the country and I mean the Bask Country, because it is the art the horrible bask nationalist government that we have are trying to promote but I have the felling that the administrators of the museum are less nationalist than the government so the collection is very small.
There are two buildings, one the old one and the other the new and very modern that seem to be placed on top of the other like two animals copulating. I do not believe anything normal will come from that procreation act. If anything the restaurant of the top floor have the reputation to have an exquisite cuisine that you should try if you ever come to visit the museum. It is not cheap and it is not conventional but worthy the visit and views.
The shop is very nice with lots of books, posters and postcards and there are many items of merchandise.
They always have nice temporary collections but I have to say that they one it was when the writer of this visit the museum was not amazing thou his friends were very happy with it. Then the personal are very nice but they do not nothing about the things they have in exhibition so do not bother in asking them. We did try to enlighten by them about some pictures and they came back to us saying that they just work there. Answer that I considered typical Spanish and it mad a big impression in my no bask nationalist soul.
Have fun.
GUERNICA
Hello;
There is a small town in the middle of Biscay, by the river Aoc that is the capital of the Bask Country. There for many years the lords of Biscay will hold the meetings that will make possible the ruling of the wild country.
For the rest of the world this town has the name of a more famous picture by the great Spanish painter Picasso. The painting was done after the rebellious army of General Franco called his friend Hitler and asked him to bomb this town so he could try out his bombing skill for the future plans of the German man. The whole thing went very well for then. They managed to destroy the whole town from the air. Not one plane was missed and lots of people died and most of the buildings of this pretty place where mashed to pieces.
Thou some of them were kept intact by pure luck because Germans are very precise.
It was market day. The farmers of all around Guernica had come to see their products to the city and the buyers of those products were also there. It was as I have read a very nice day until the planes started to bomb the town. They killed lots of people, everybody was there so it was easy but that was not the most important thing. They were trying to saw to the resistant of the legally elected government that they did not have a chance to win the fight. The planes flew over the town lots of times, always in formation, dropping as many bombs as they can carry. There were as many planes as people in the city and every plane with lots of bombs so their capacity to kill was over whelming for this small city of the Bask country. When the whole thing finished it was dark and it was impossible to know how many people died. The ones that survive was because they managed to run to the hills close by. The planes tried to shoot them down but they were not successful.
The market nowadays is a quite modern construction. For many years there was a square there and the farmers will sell their products by putting them on the floor, on top of the classic plats mantels and then in the seventies they build a modern and horrible market that is in the middle of the city.
Thanks to Picasso the whole world will always remember Guernica.
Have fun.
RIEL & STEPHANY
Hello;
They have arrived to Bilbao yesterday. They arrived from Barcelona and they are going to spend a whole week with us. For Miren and me they are going to be the first guess in our house and we are going to be able to experiment how it is to live with somebody else in what it has become our love nest. For them, I can really tell but they have been for a week end in the south of France, drive all the way to Barcelona, take plane to Bilbao and then they will go back there and spend a week in the sunny and cultural Barcelona.
We met Riul working for Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. He was assistant director and assistant producer of the movie “Lovesick”, the making of Zumanity our show in Las Vegas. I do not remember very well the first day we met so I will tell you about the first time or the first images that I have of him in my head.
We have just arrived to Las Vegas and we were staying at the Candlewood apartments. We did not know anybody there so it was impossible to have anything to smoke. The crew of the making of had been in Las Vegas for sometimes so they had already set themselves up with a dealer and they had plenty of anything that you may need after a long day of work.
So I remember going back home and asking about who may be able to help me with my smoking habits. I got directed to a room where there were more people having a go to our old friend Mariauana. They were all sitting drinking and talking about the music that was sounding there. The band playing was the Band. The guy that was playing records non stop and talking about them had his head shave and was wearing shorts and sandals, the same ones that I have seen him wearing yesterday when I picked him from the airport.
Next day he was shooting with Lewis and the crew and that was the beginning of a great friendship.
Later he got involve with Stephanie and I just met her and I have immediately liked her. I am going to have great time with them here in my house and I hope that they do too.
Have fun.
FERTILITY TREATMENT
Hello;
Lost in the middle of the space, we have not met anybody in three years of travelling from Galaxy. Our space ship has been lost since escaping from an asteroids storm. The ship was hit several times in the wings and at the rear. The main computer had been broken and the automatic path installed by the deceased commander had been modified taking the whole ship and the crew to places in the middle of the galaxy that have never been explore before.
We do not have problems of food and water but the lack of breathing air is starting to get dangerous levels. We have not been back in earth for ten years and the ships have a reserve of twelve years and they do not know for how long it would take them to go back. They say to go back to do not loose moral but in the back of their mind they suspect that they will never come back.
Three men and two women live there; they have lived all this time thanks to the E-22 pill that controls all the emotions. There have been many moments of tensions but as soon as they took the pill they got relax. They got normal and the feelings disappear as they came in. In the beginning they did not believe that was possible, they thought that they were going to be able to deal with their human problems. They were ten years younger and they were having the mission of their life. But after five years the tension got too high and one of them took the E-22 and form that day they all took advantage of it. The E-22 was designed to control all the human appetites of humans, for humans, men wanting to have women, women wanting to have men and men wanting to have men and women wanting to have women. The pill was created to avoid super population, there was not more space in earth and there have to be a way of prevents that human aspiration of procreation. They were not successful immediately but they got the goal really soon. Since them all the population of the earth and the one that was living on the space was under control and the survival resources will last longer.
No a days since they got lost in the space they spend most of the time sleeping and the ships takes them where ever he wants. It is only the captain; he has not lost faith and keeps trying the right way back to earth. He is studying all the old maps and he thinks there is a way back.
I woke up and I thought we are going to have the fertilisation in vitro but why? There are many children in the world that need parents, still it is all about being human and having the experience, the natural experience of giving birth, I will not give birth my wife will, I do not know, this is all very confusing.
Have fun.
MY RESPONSABILITIES
Hello;
Yes, I do have a problem with getting on with things. And I am going to tell you even more I have a problem with finishing things, more than with getting on with things. I have thousand of things started in my house that I have never finished, from books to finish reading to pictures finish hanging on the wall, etc
I say this ‘cos I had a little bit of an incident with Petra via e-mail. She tells me very right so, that she takes charge of things because I have not taking charge of something that spymonkey told me I should take charge off. Well, I did not do it. It is true and that is why Petra did it. So what do I have to say about what she did? Nothing because I should have done it and she did it. And that piss me off and it makes me fell really stupid and useless and it is my fault.
In the beginning I tried to explain why I did not think Spymonkey should do workshops. They should do workshops but just not very often, perhaps when we play, in the places where we play because I fell that there is the danger that we may become a workshops theatre company. My colleges did not see it like that so we decided to promote the workshops and did not do what I had to do. I am sorry. It upsets me and it makes me fell even sorrier.
I do not want to say anything else. My blog has finished for today. Any try to justify my conduct will upset me in the future and I deserve the punishment for not fulfilling my responsibilities. But on the other hand I have not written enough words for what I consider is the right amount for a proper entry in my daily blog. And I do not want to start to talk about something that has nothing to do with the subject that I sharing with you today. So I think I am going to fill with words this last line and then close my computer and go and watch TV. TV is something that makes me forget about things. It is the thing that helps me to escape from problems because it occupies my brain, but I did not want to talk anymore so there is it a worm good bye and I wait for you tomorrow.
Have fun.
HEAT
Hello;
It is really hot. It is really hot all over Europe and it is really hot here in Bilbao. But I have just arrived from Vienna and it was really hot over there too. I am going to be leaving in ten days to Edinburgh and it is really hot over there too. What is going on? It is normal to be hot in Spain in this time of the year and to a certain extend it is normal to be hot in the north hemisphere but not so hot. It is not normal to be so hot in many places where it is super hot. People from all over the north hemisphere of the world are dying from the heat. In all the countries are cases and there is a reason for that that our governments, the one that we voted, are not doing anything about it so that means that we want the whole world to get really hot until every body died. The world is a stupid place.
But I do not mind dying, I would not like to die tomorrow but I want this super heat wave to stop.
When I am go to be I am sweating. I leave the window open at night so the breeze of the sea will run through my house and will refresh me in my sleep. In the middle of the night I wake up because the drops of sweat get into my eyes and I have to open them and I can see that the breeze has passed and left and has not refreshed anything. I am in my bed sweating like pig and thinking in how could go back to sleep. I turn around once and I turn around twice and things do not change. The movements I have been doing just to get rid of my heat are not helping, on the contrary they are making my sweat even more so I go for the straight thing, I spread myself over the bed and I get rid of my shit, not completely just enough so it covers my belly bottom. That is how I like to sleep when is hot. And then when I am almost falling sleep another body moves in her dreams and it get so close to me that I start to sweat again. So I fell force to start the whole routine again and I realise that this is going to be another very long night.
I love the heat during the day but at nights it has to be fresh, it has to become a little bit chilly so we can long for the day and its heat.
Have fun.
FATHER FOR ONE DAY
Hello,
“Have you seem my kid? He is lovely isn't he? Who do you think he looks like, his mother or myself? Yes, the eyes are mine and the rest is her mother. No, we are really happy, he is a very friendly child; he always has a smile in his face.
No, now he is ten months old, it told for his age, when he was born he was seven pounds and a half, we had to take care of how much did he it because he was in danger to become obese. Now his weight is perfect.”
You do not know what is to be a father until you have kids. No you don't so we borrow Miren's sister child and we went out with him. He is a lovely funny kid that is really nice and has a very strong character.
I think we did very well but he was just with us for twenty-four hours and I am sure that the first twenty-four hours are the easiest ones because everything is new and you are just trying to enjoy after having the kid for nine months in your estomach.
I proudly drove my child for a day all over my town. I took him with my wife all over the usual places where the usual suspects take their kids to spend as much energy as possible.
They all mingle together and become friends for the rest of their lives. They will become boyfriends and girlfriends and then they will get married and then they will have more kids to make sure that the process never stops.
My kid for one day did not go to play because still lives in a car and he cannot go out and play with other children. He plays with them like if they are more of the toys he travels with in his chair with wheels.
We took our child for one-day home when he started to scream with hunger. I have had one beer too much and I had forgotten about my child for one day. He remained me that I was his father for one day and I immediately took my wife and my kid back home to dinner.
When finally he felt sleep I rested. My child for one day was very sweet but lots of work. He was lovely while he was sleeping and while he was awake but it made me thing a lot about me wanting to have kids.
Have fun.
OPTIMISTIC
Hello;
Performers have to be optimistic to go to the stage. It does not really matter what you do, comedy or tragedy you have to be optimistic about what is going to happen on the stage as soon as you go in. that optimism is going to give you the stupidity and vulnerability to be likeable by the audience. So whenever an actor is going to the stage he or she has to be optimistic, the word has to be in his brain all the time and has to be resounding all over their bodies. Whenever their mouths will open the words would have to be dress with optimism.
Why is this is very important? You fail many times on the stage and you have to carry on, you are not allowed to stop the show and then resolve the problem and carry on. Usually there is a moment of doubt immediately after the mistake and you have to face it with optimism so the show can carry on and the performers can carry on performing in a very nice and good way.
The optimism is the fuel to make and keep you light during the show. That fuel will be use in all those moments that life give as all the time and when they come an you are on the stage seem to be much bigger, your engine fill up the tank with optimism and start running as soon as something unexpected happens. It will make you fly.
So it is in opening nights or in very important performances where this fuel is more needed. Actors have to charge their batteries so they are ready for anything. When they go out there, to the unknown, like Scott in the Antarctic they have to be full of optimism so they will not died.
To abuse of optimism is drains you, it makes you fell empty, rest for a little while, have a beer, see some friends, love someone and the whole thing will get better.
Have fun.
12th July 2006
THE KINGS OF COMEDY
Hello;
After a good show you fell like a king. If the show is a comedy you fell then like King of Comedy. We look for that felling and if you ask me that is the fundamental reason why all the actors do theatre. You can call it, as you want, ego, self-esteem, shyness so I can be myself while I am on the stage and all that crap that actors tell about what they do.
My friends in Vienna had a fantastic run in front of the audience yesterday. They loved them, the audience did and I felt really proud of them. Today they went to the stage with that felling but it had been digested and it had become the felling called “I am so funny I can't fail” and that is the worst thing for someone that is trying to make people laugh.
I saw them going in the theatre that night and I had a panic attack. I jump on my sit and I tied to tell them that I thought I had seen Mr. Flop having a not very good glass or red Austrian wine and he was ready to go to see a show.
They listened but there was nothing they could do. They have to go to the stage and learned that some times Mr. Flop comes and that's it. You learn to take the felling inside and then when you go on the stage you are always concern but happy to be there, but worried that he may appear any moment, but with lots of pleasure to play for your friends in the audience, but with lots of carefulness in case he cross the door.
They did not have a good show. The one that save the show was Uriko because she is always scared and she does not think she is funny. She was fantastic.
It is great to be a King Of Comedy and everybody should try to be once. The thing is that you are never going to be the king for too long because you want to carry on performing and when you perform is always different. And to a certain extent you perform to fell again like a King of Comedy. Some days you will think that you did it again the felling was there, but then you will know that it is not the same because when it happens it is unique and the rest if time is just trying to find it again.
Have fun.
CAL
Hello,
You all know Cal; he is the director of Spymonkey. He has directed all our shows of Spymonkey until now. I say this because perhaps we may need to work with somebody else in the future. I am not sure of that.
Cal is a good friend for many years. I am in Vienna directing a show and I have been thinking about him all the time. He has been my inspiration. I have thought so many times what he would do in a situation like this one? And thinking like that has helped me to come up with a nice clown number.
For me the most amazing thing or better the most surprising thing and I say it with pleasure is that I surprised myself thinking about Cal and what he will do. He has been my mentor, certainly one of them, as far as I am concern he is one of the best clown directors in the world. His eye to make people funny is the best one I know. I am sure there are other people in the world as good as him or better but I do not know them.
Lately we have had some problems with Cal and it is difficult to arrive to agreements but we have done it and I hope that we always work together.
But let me tell you about me walking around the Museum Quarter in Vienna and thinking about the rehearsal the next day and going through the troubles I will encounter to give five people their place in the group and in the play and thinking of Cal.
Why? I felt really happy to be able to say to him thanks for being my inspiration.
Now I do not want to write anything else. There is nothing more to say. When you work in this theatre you have to be lucky to work with people generous enough that can help you to enhance your little or big talent, someone that will care enough to forgive your mistakes and to lead you in the right direction. You meet thousand of people and thousand of them tells you how good you are and immediately can also tell you how shit you are but just very few are with you all the time because they believe in who you are and this business like life is about who you are.
Have fun.
LEOPOLD MUSSEUM
Hello,
In the middle of the second district in Vienna or is it the first, lets leave it in the middle of Vienna or better, so I can really prove to all of you that I had been there and I know what I am talking about, with inn the belt of Vienna, and perhaps the ring, How does this sound?
Well, there is the MQ, the Museum Quarter. It is a quarter of land where the Viennese have gathered some of their museums and they have created I succession of great squares to chill out during the warm days of summer. Lots of people gather there and you can visit different museums from the Architecture Museum to the modern museum and I believe, I wish I would have looked better, also the History and Natural Science museum are just on the other side of the road.
There is also the Leopold Museum with the largest collection of Egon Shille works. I think the largest is on the other side of the Atlantic.
I visit the place almost every day after rehearsals because there was free Internet access and it was a nice place to have a beer if you were by yourself. But on my day off I went to visit the actual museum. My father asked me to bring a Klimt picture for my mum so I was in a mission. I was not familiar with Klimt but as soon as I saw some of his work I realised who he was and I knew it. I saw more of him but while I was at it a discovered Egon Shiler. Many of the rooms are dedicated to his work. He died very young form Spanish Influence three months after his wife. I felt responsible. His work is amazing; it is very expressive and not naturalistic at all. The images are very powerful, the women naked that he painted are super sexy and I surprise myself starting to get arouse in the middle of the museum with a great picture of girl backwards, showing her ass¡¡¡ The picture was fantastic, In front of that one there was one girl naked, this time her front body, I immediately thought they are the same one, so I have seen her from the front and then from the back. As I am telling, you, it is a party for the senses. The other room are great but the collection I saw I did not find it very good. The museum is great, as great as all the modern museum that is all over the world these days. It has a very nice shop and the coffee shop seems to be very popular thou the day I was there it rained so I had to have my glass of wine inside the bar. Please go and see Shiller's works at the Leopold Museum is fantastically sexy and beautiful.
Have fun.
LAUDA MOTION
Hello;
The old formula one driver Nikki Lauda has created this firm that offers many different kind of services from Airplanes to banking. At the moment they have this offer for people who want to rent a car where you rent one of his cars, that is decorated with lots of publicity and you pay just one Euro per day.
Stephan has rented one in Vienna so he can drive me around a show me all the nice places of this amazing town. There castles and monuments and cathedrals and houses and things to watch every where, if we will do it walking we will see one thing and we are very short of time. SO he has come to pick me up from the Museum Quarter where I go to get my e-mails. When he comes and I see the car I cannot stop laughing. We have decided to go to see the river, The Danube, and we are going to be driving around town to see the nice things. The car is a smart and it is very ridiculous because it has publicity all over the place and you certainly calling for attention.
There we are the two of us in our shorts driving around town with our sunglasses and looking like a gay couple going around Vienna in search of all the romantic spots. It is a little bit embarrass. But what the hell, better to look gay than many other things.
We arrive to this old summer camp place that the socialist party built many years ago so the workers could also go on holydays.
The people are sunbathing and swimming in the river and for me it looks like I have travelled in time or that I am in a Russian movie.
We lay in our towels and we read the books and go to swim. We still look like a gay couple but now we are happy. We have found that romantic spot that will make our love to last forever. We will always have the Danube, thou I have to say that the looks of all these workers from the Austrian factories were not extremely sympathetic; the homosexual love never was part of the Social revolution.
We drove back to Vienna in our little gay smart car full of publicity of Nikki Lauda big company. The car was great and the weekend was great. We were not gay but if we were it was nobody business.
Have fun.
THE DANUBE?
Hello;
I hope that you all know what I mean because I really do not know how it spell it properly in German and I will have to send a text message to Stephan because when I write this I have already left Austria and …Oh, shit you caught me there¡¡ Yes, I have to admit it sometimes I do not write the blog in the next day. Well, it will be very difficult, first because some days I am busy believe it or not. Second because some times I wake up and I do not fell inspired at all and third and the most important for me is that it gives me a little bit of perspective to the way I see the pass, the recent pass.
We went for a swim in the river of Vienna. Stephan drove our little smart out of town and like real men we got lost three or four times but we did not ask any body and then we found this place. We were twenty km away from the city. The place looked like a set of summer polish movie. It had all the flavour of the times where the wall between the east and the west was higher than ever. The grass really green and the wood barracks for the workers were very well kept. That was the only thing that was giving away that we were in a Germanic country and not one of the most soviets of the countries under the spelt of the old communist regime. Trying to be a little bit nasty even the people had that look, the moustaches and the fifties clothes thou now they were retro and not poor trying to look good.
The river is legendary and brown, Stephan told me that it was because the summer thunderstone of the night before but I did not believe him very much. And probably he was telling the truth. He jump in the water really fast and try to imitate so I will not fell very foreigner but I could not, the water was freezing.
I went inn in two steps; the first attempt I introduce myself to over my belly bottom, I was dying for a pi and that was the best place I could think. The water of the river did not get warmer with the adding of my warmest water, no.
The second time I did the same operation as the same time but this time I appeal to the rule of do everything at least once in your lifetime. I had never swum in the Danube, the mythical river of Centre Europe. Where the stories of the Nibelungs and Walkirias started so there I was blocking my nose with my two fingers and introducing my body really fast in and out of the water. I could tell I swam in the Danube but I introduced my entire body inn.
We stayed there until seven. The armies of mosquitoes were getting ready for the big battle of the night and we had to see a friend of Stephan.
As we left the Socialist relic I decided that I love the south, it is warmer, very disorganised a chaotic but warmer.
Have fun.
SAN FERMIN
Hello;
San Fermin is the saint of Pamplona (Navarra) a big city south of the west part of the Pyrenees. They have this festival on the 7 th of July where they let all the bulls out and then all the young people run in front of them to show how manly and strong they are. They let the bulls out on a close corridor that takes the animals from the place where they are staying to the bull-fighting square.
The festival is famous all over the world mainly because Hemingway wrote lots of nice things about it. Since then lots of American young guys come to Pamplona in his journey around the world before they go to the University to prove to the world and to themselves that they are manly worthy. They stay the whole night partying and then they try to run in front of the bulls, wild animals. Some of them died in that race as a result of not being cautious and careful. When you are getting ready to run in front of an animal you go to bed early and you do not drink anything the night before. Imagine how would it be to run in front of a lion with a hung over? It will be suicide. So this English, Australians, Americans and foreign in general do not learn from the natives before running in front of the bulls. The natives, the night before, have some glasses of wine while eating their nice dinner. They have an amazing cuisine in Navarra and then they watch a little bit of TV and then they go to bed. They wake up a couple of hours before the run and warm up and then they go to by the paper and they wait.
They wait and concentrate because they know that a bull kill and that is why gets taken to the middle of the bull-fighting ring. The animal is fighter and he likes killing so if you are not clever and ready you will suffer. They fold many times the daily paper until it is thick enough and strong enough to hit the bull between his eyes, as and advice of what will be happening at the “ruedo” when the sun starts to set.
You see them doing short runs to worm up, and jumps to test their leg power but they do not drink or do drugs they get ready and fear the bull.
The bull is the last wild animal that has like the tiger, he loves killing, he is one of the killers of the animal kingdom and he is proud of it.
So if you go to San Fermin run once and be careful, very careful because you can get kill. There is a big difference between a cow and bull.
Have fun.
THE GERMANIC TOILET
Hello;
My toilet in Romo, my town is a normal toilet. A big hole at the top where you place your ass and then that whole starts to get smaller as the toilet is touching the floor. At the bottom where the water is the circle has got smaller and is where the turd flouts before you flash the water. It is very nice because when you have a heavy shit the sausage of merde hits the water and a little bit of waters splash your ass. I like that thou I know it is a little bit disgusting but it is the mixture between the heat of the turd and the cold of the water that is refreshing your asshole.
The Germanic toilet has a small platform at the beginning of the ramp. Once you have finished doing your things you flash the water and the whole thing goes disappearing behind the ramp. The first time I saw this I did not have a thought about it but then now I see that platform in the toilet I it makes me wander. I do not think that it is something like English people driving on the other side of the road it is something more important.
So there are so many things, so many intriguing things about that Germanic toilet, things that are very estrange to understand. I run some of them with my German specialist and he told me that there are toilets in Munich that are not Germanic per se. All the detritus of the human body go down to the water like in the rest of the world.
We develop this theory that the Germanic toilet got developed in the sixties and seventies as a result of the food conscience that the hippy times brought to the whole world. People then wanted to check if what they had eaten had done any good to them inside. In order to check how good the food had been to their body they had to check the colour of the shit, black, brownish not very good for your health, vies and green it meant that your diet was the right one, rich in vegetables and fruit.
But let me ask you, why not you check what you eat before you eat it instead of watching it when it has left your body? Too much meat? Not too good, and your shit will be black and brownish.
So I think it is the result of a protestant education that need to punishment all the time, you did not do the right thing so you have to see it on your shit and fell guilty for being really naughty so tomorrow salad and fruit.
Have fun.
SECOND GPH MEETING
Hello;
For all of you who did not read my blog before I am reporting from the frontline of comedy and GPH is our new manager. They have more people in their books and the fact that we are also there has brought many illusions of success and money to our brains. We had a meeting some time ago. I flew to London just for that; they all look nice and very professional.
I usually trust my first impression very much and this time I will have to say that it was not enough. Also the main dude was not there because she was in Australia. She is called Glenis. While we were in the meeting she was sending messages to Katie on the phone and that was quite funny. No, those messages had nothing to do with what we were talking about.
Anyway, we have to have another meeting but this time it was going to be Petra and Toby because I was not going to go to London again for another meeting. So they had a two hours and a half meeting that Petra very kindly resume in e-mail for Stephan and me.
They are paying for everything in Edinburgh so they want all the profits to go back to Glennys. Fine, I think on the first place, but if they recuperate all the money then they would be making money and we the producers of the show will not making any money, estrange? I think.
Then there are issues with the contract with Cal that would have to be deal when the time comes. I suppose it is mainly because they represent us and do not represent Cal so probably they want us to be the biggest thing. And I think that this is a very nice thought, I always wanted to be big but I do not want to be bigger than anybody else.
There were more things in that meeting that rest in e-mail in my computer. I cannot write them here so all of you will know. That is secret Spymonkey information. I would love to share it with you but at the moment I do not think is the right thing to do.
So the meeting, for what I read in the mail it was another lesson of how things have to be done when you want to have a very good show. There are still many things to talk but, friends we are going to be in Edinburgh for a month so I am sure we will have time to talk about it once we are there and I will tell you all about it.
Have fun.
BIERGARTEN
Hello
Groups of men and women walking in the streets, they celebrate how they walk and go in a clear direction. The do not carry any drinks in their hands but they look as if they have been drinking.
Their destiny is a big circus looking tent in close space. Before they get in they would be search in case they are carrying drinks. They are not allowed to carry any drinks they would have to buy them inside the tent or out side the tent but it would have to be with in the walls that surround the tent.
There are two hundred people sitting in tables and benches and they all are looking to a small stage surrounded by three screens, one on the left, another on the right and the one in the middle. And then all around the edge of the tent there are bars and places where these men and women can spend their money.
Many of them are Italian supporters and some of them support Germany. The MC. is asking from the stage that is with Germany? And a small crowd of people shouted in answer then the Italian turn and all the supporters will stand up and scream like mad. Italian supporters really love their team.
As we are talking about what is going to happen next we realise that the man that is sitting next to us is now on the stage talking to the MC and Stephan explain me that he is the trainer of the girls under 18 Austrian national team, lucky man with a very exciting job.
The match has not started yet and everybody is feeling full on but in an Austrian way, they are keeping themselves to their sits and they are getting pretty drunk but in a civilised manner.
We get beers and they are very expensive. I do not know if I want to see the match but it does not really matter because there are many thing here to watch, specially people and the way they live their love for football and their love for their national team. Is this really right? Sometimes I think it is just a very good excuse for a party but lets give them the benefit of the doubt.
Have fun.
SEMEN
Hello;
We do not really need to say what semen is because I am sure that all of you are adults and by now you have been involve in one way or the other with it.
I have been taking to a room. This room is not very well decorated, clear grey are the walls and there is a TV on the corner opposite to the corner of the entrance door. In front of that door there is another door that takes you to a very clean toilet with everything that you need.
As I look a round I discover a pile of magazines in many different languages that have lots of men and women having great sex. I fell a little bit shy thou nobody is looking because nobody is in the room but nevertheless I have to touch my pennies until I come and then keep the whole amount of semen in a plastic jar that I would have to hang to the lady in the laboratory. I am sure she will be smiling when I handle it to her. I am sure there is going to be a smile of complicity between us.
Well, let's get on with it. I unzip my trousers and pull them down with my underpants. My wily is really small and flaccid. I fell shy but I like coming so I decided to be practical and I get hold of a magazine and look at the fun the guys in the pictures are having. I try to decide what is what I like the most, breasts, vaginas, penetrations, up the ass, blow jobs, I like blow jobs. I fell my pennies starting to get stiff. Not too much just enough so I can hold it with my hand and shake it a little bit.
I have to carry on looking at the magazines. I try to read what they say but they are in French, German, English and these languages do not turn me on so I avoid the writing and get to the pictures.
Then I think, should I have fun or should I just get on with it? And I decide that I should have as much fun as I can. I do not wonk often and I think is something very pleasurable so let make the most out of it. I grab my pennies and I stroke it quite enthusiastically for a little while until I come. Thanks good I had got hold of the jar before hand and I place all my semen into it.
I stand up and go to the toilet and wash my genitals and I have a wee. I look at my watch and I realise that I have been inside that room just for less than teen minutes. It is not good but I had fun.
I had fill up just a small corner of the jar, it does not look like enough to make a baby but the people in the laboratory will be able to tell me in a couple of weeks.
I pass in front to the office girls and I hope that they have forgotten the reason why I came here today. They do not seem to notice me and I meet the girl of the laboratory and she smiles at me. It is not a clever smile is an honest smile of happy to see me.
Everything has gone well so I will see them in a couple of weeks.
Have fun.
EDDIE PALMIERI
Hello;
Eddie is this little man, bold and quite old that has an amazing smile. When he is on the stage his smile is so big that you do not know what is the difference between hit teeth and the keys for the piano. Every time that he was playing a sharp G, I could not really work out if it was caries or the key, the white of his teeth was incredibly white.
He plays piano and he has an amazing band that plays Latin Jazz.
Before I went to see him I have never heard of him. He seems to be a very famous jazz pianist but I did not know him.
He had come to my village with two other famous musicians who I do not know their names; one played the congas and the other play the drums. So the whole concert was a little bit estrange because he will lead and start all the songs and then he left the other stars of his band to have a solo and then the whole band finished the song. All the pieces they did were very long and from time to time a little bit boring. I drunk beer and I wanted to have a smoke; I did not care what kind of smoke. I cold see a big cohiba coming out of the breast pocket of Eddie and I could imagine him smoking that big cigar with his friends at dinner after the concert.
Hours before I had seen another concert of the leader of the New York Ska Ensemble at my local bar in Romo. I liked it a lot. It was really funny to see in your little local bar a band of six super musicians playing all cramped in a corner, sweating like mad and making us having the most fantastic time of our lives.
I had planned to see this one first and then go to see Eddie Palmieri. A friend of mine gave me a lift to the other concert and he was driving so fast that I thought we were going to see the concert in heaven some years after when Eddie will leave the world. We made it thou but my balls travel to my neck a couple of time in a three minutes ride.
I loved Eddie Palmieri. I did not like very much his concert but he was better than the concert and I am sure his music is great. He was so alive and so ready to entertain the audience telling nice things and he was incredible generous and that is a nice thing to be nowadays.
Have fun.
ANOTHER SURFING STORY
Hello,
The sky was grey and the wind was blowing like announcing “I am bringing a big gale with me so get ready”. Everybody was leaving the beach covering their heads from the imminent rain. The noise of the waves was very laud and I could hear it even from the inside of the car.
I saw the white water by far away but many time before I have seen something similar and as I got into the water the waves were very small and with no power so the whole thing became very frustrating.
I parked the car and I went running to the shore and I could see it. It was not huge, it was big enough for me to have fun and not be scare while I am in the water.
I parked the care in Sopelana, a very nice beach ten minutes away from my house and I took my board out of the car and then I put my wet suit.
I had spent the whole day in the countryside. I had visited my friend Jon Ariño who recently has done a movie with Gary Oldman and it will open in September at the San Sebastian film festival. It is called the Backwoods and it is going to be very good.
Well, I had to have a swim and the waves were great. I went in to my wetsuit really fast and I went down to the beach. The weather was shit, it was not raining yet but it did not look good. The waves were very big and I decided to go inn anyway. I could feel the adrenaline and also the effort I was going to have to do in order to have a little bit of fun.
I paddled inn and I go my first wave. It was not really big, it was medium and it was great. Then that was the last thing I did. It started to rain really think drops and with lots of fury. While fighting with the waves I could see the lighting hitting the sea and the thunders coming really strong immediately afterwards.
In despite of the storm there were more surfers inside the water so I decided to stay there. It felt a little bit like the end of the world and my very vivid imagination and my paranoid tendencies were having the time of their live. I had died at least fifteen times in the last five minutes but I could still fell alive so everything was the product of my imagination.
The sea was not very angry it was the sky so we surfed for half an hour more and then I left. I went out and stayed for a while looking at the sea, fantastic. My wet suit avoided me getting cold and it was protecting me from the very big hale that was coming down. I had to put my surfboard on top of my head to protect myself. It was great.
Have fun.
